I guess this one just isn’t for me. I’m a fantasy reader at heart, but enjoy a dabble into sci-fi now-and-then, so after seeing so much praise heaped onto the Hugo and Nebula and Locus Award-winning This is How You Lose the Time War I decided to give it a shot. The...

So, this was a really difficult one for me to review. It did not start well. For several hundred pages (close to half of the entire book) the story follows Rin through her formative years at Sinegard military academy. There were so many tropes here I was nearly...

After really liking "The Ten Thousand" and being very disappointed with "Corvus" I picked up the third and final book in the trilogy with some trepidation. "Kings of Morning" sits somewhere between the two. The characters are way more interesting than the cardboard...

Wow. For me personally this book was a major step back from everything that made "The Ten Thousand" such a gripping read. For reasons unknown Kearney decided to base the second volume of The Macht trilogy entirely on the human part of the continent and the city states...

(Some very light spoilers) It's amazing how much a book can surprise you. Having read all of the previous novels I bought this one blind without reading any of the online blurb or descriptions so the 30-year time jump came as a complete shock. Changing the status quo...

I was originally drawn to Kearney and his "The Macht" series after hearing people compare him to Steven Erikson or David Gemmell, two of my favourite authors. After finishing the Ten Thousand I'm not quite sure he reaches these lofty heights but he's definitely not...